Mechanical Pain

We know from personal experience that it’s very easy to get caught up in a mindset which says that ‘pain is a bad thing’ that we needs to just get rid of at all costs. But the truth is that pain is a very important part of being a healthy person.

Pain relief is always our aim. We do however (as chiropractors) feel that pain relief alone is a bit like taking the battery out of the smoke alarm because it makes a nasty noise then going back to sleep without checking why it was going off in the first place. If there is pain in your body that’s your bodies way of trying to bring your attention to something it feels is important.

Mechanical pain whether it comes from a joint, bone, tendon, muscle or ligament ( we treat all of those btw ) is a sign that the tissue is being stressed of overloaded in some way.

If we consider something pretty simple like shoulder pain in the somewhat hunched over ’50 hours a week at the computer’ chiropractors patient it might be pretty obvious just looking at them that there is a bit of unnatural compression happening inside their spine and rib cage .. it’s this kind of pressure that over time causes a lot of our pains.